Police make arrest in September shooting

Updated 7:09 pm, Saturday, March 16, 2013

NEW MILFORD -- Joshua Cable, who according to police claimed to have been shot near the Red Carpet Inn last fall, was arrested Friday on criminal counts stemming from the Sept. 26 incident.

Cable, 30, a former New Milford resident now living in Torrington, was held on a $100,000 bond. He is facing charges of possession of a firearm, possession of a silencer, falsely reporting an incident, tampering with evidence, false statement in the second degree and interfering with an officer. He is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Bantam on Monday.

Local and state police using dogs and a helicopter combed the area on Kent Road (Route 7) on the morning of the shooting, searching for the alleged gunman. The heavily traveled road was closed for nearly 12 hours.

Cable suffered a gunshot wound to the upper body. He was treated and released the same day at Danbury Hospital.

In an attempt to assuage public fears of an armed suspect on the run in the town, New Milford police said on Sept. 28 that they had identified a person of interest in the shooting.

According to police, on Sept. 26 Cable said he had been walking south on Route 7 in front of the Red Carpet Inn Suites when he was shot, shortly before 1 a.m.

State police troopers pulled up to the scene within minutes of the reported shooting. State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said the troopers got there quickly because they were in the area on an unrelated investigation.

There were conflicting reports that morning about whether Cable had been staying at the inn or had been visiting a guest who was staying there.

Guests at both the Red Carpet Inn and the adjacent Rocky River Inn were evacuated from their rooms and not allowed to return until the road was reopened around 1 p.m., managers of both establishments said.